DeepSeek effect: India should build cheaper AI models

TWO years after OpenAI's ChatGPT took the world by storm, China's AI model DeepSeek has now sparked a debate among tech enthusiasts on building low-cost AI models and India's potential to tap the opportunity, train foundational AI models relatively cheaper than the cost involved currently.

- UMA KANNAN @ Bengaluru

Currently, Indian tech firms have tied up with leading maker of computer chips Nvidia to accelerate AI adoption. While DeepSeek has claimed its R1 model took only $6 million to build and that too using Nvidia's less-advanced chips, it had cost $100 million for OpenAI to build GPT-4 and Nvidia is the key supplier of advanced chips to the company.